Additional Resources

Significant Industry Research

CEIR Census
CEIR's Exhibition Industry Census provides the statistics needed to accurately identify current involvement, plan strategies, set legitimate goals and precisely measure progress. The Census contains data on all exhibitions occupying at least 3,000 net square feet of space and includes at least 10 exhibiting companies - including both B2B and consumer exhibitions. More than 14,000 events have been counted - three times the levels frequently reported.

CEIR Index
CEIR's Annual Index provides an objective measure of exhibition performance from the baseline year of 2000 and each year forward to the present. The Index reveals how the exhibition industry performed overall and in 11 industry sectors.

CIC Economic Impact Study
The Economic Impact of Conventions, Exhibitions, Meetings and Incentive Travel Study provides the most current findings of the economic impact of the meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel industry in the United States. The study provides a macroeconomic analysis of the industry’s direct spending and employment growth.

DMAI ExPact2004
The ExPact2004 Study was designed to standardize event industry direct spending calculations and to provide an updated measure of the value of the convention and meetings industry. The study surveyed delegates, exhibitors and event organizers for a variety of meetings, conventions and trade shows to determine how much they spent in the city where the event was held.

Associations:

American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA)
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) represents the interests of the U.S. Lodging industry at the national level on federal legislative and regulatory affairs, the national media, the educational community, research groups and the general public.

Association for Convention Operations Management (ACOM)
The Association for Convention Operations Management (ACOM) is an international organization for convention professionals. The association is dedicated to providing needs-directed continuing education, enhancing professional values and standards, and advancing and promoting quality customer services, to encourage growth and recognition of the convention services profession.

Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME)
The mission of ADME is to increase the professionalism and effectiveness of destination management through education, promotion of ethical practices, and availability of information to the meeting, convention, and incentive travel industry and the general public.

Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR)
CEIR is a non-profit organization with the mission of advancing the growth, awareness and value of exhibitions and other face-to-face marketing events by producing and delivering research-based knowledge tools. For over 25 years, CEIR has been highlighting the importance of exhibitions in today's business environment.

Convention Industry Council
The Convention Industry Council's 32 member organizations represent more than 103,500 individuals, as well as 17,300 firms and properties involved in the meetings, conventions, and exhibitions industry. Formed in 1949 to provide a forum for member organizations seeking to enhance the industry, CIC facilitates the exchange of information and develops programs to promote professionalism within the industry and educates the public on its profound economic impact.

Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) Formerly IACVB
Destination Marketing Association International represents 1,350+ professional members from more than 600 destination marketing organizations throughout 30 countries. Called the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus until August 2005, the association has worked to enhance the professionalism, effectiveness and image of CVBs and tourism boards since 1914.

Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI)
The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) represents travel sales and marketing professionals. Founded in 1927, HSMAI is an international, individual membership organization comprised of over 5000 members representing 79 chapters in 35 countries worldwide, dedicated to enhancing sales and marketing management skills in the travel and hospitality industry through education and networking opportunities with peers and customers.

International Association of Conference Centers (IACC)
The International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1981 to advance understanding and awareness of conference centers as distinct and unique within the hospitality industry.

International Association for Exhibition Management (IAEM)
The International Association for Exhibition Management (IAEM) is the professional association for more than 3,200 individuals located in 41 nations and involved in the management and support of the global exhibition industry. IAEM's mission is to promote the exhibition industry throughout the world and to provide for the education and professional growth of its members.

Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
Meeting Professionals International is the largest association for the meeting profession with 18,000 members in 64 chapters and affiliates. As the global authority and resource for the multi-billion dollar meeting and event industry, MPI empowers meeting professionals to increase their strategic value through education, clearly defined career pathways, and business growth opportunities.

National Business Travel Association (NBTA)
The National Business Travel Association is the source for critical information on the business travel industry. For more than 35 years, NBTA has dedicated itself to the professional development of its members through advocacy, education and training, and networking opportunities. NBTA represents over 2,500 corporate travel managers and travel service providers, who collectively manage and direct more than $170 billion of expenditures within the business travel industry.

Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)
The mission of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) shall be to serve the association community by enhancing the effectiveness of meetings, conventions, and exhibitions through member and industry education and to promote the value of the meetings industry to the general public.

Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE)
The Society of Incentive and Travel Executives (SITE) is a worldwide organization of business professionals dedicated to the increased recognition and use of incentives as a motivator and reward in programs designed to achieve defined objectives. Founded in 1973, SITE is comprised of 2000 individual members representing more than 80 countries.

Trade Show Exhibitors Association (TSEA)
The Trade Show Exhibitors Association provides knowledge to management professionals who utilize the trade show and events medium to promote and sell their products, as well as those who supply them with products and services. Since 1966, TSEA has been distributing thoughtful publications and meaningful services that help exhibitors do their jobs more effectively.

Publications:

Convene
Convene, the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association, is the leading resource to which meeting professionals turn for in-depth information on all aspects of meeting management. Convene's primary goal, like PCMA's, is to enhance the effectiveness of meetings, conventions, and exhibitions through industry education.

E2
E2 - Exhibitions & Events, published by IAEM, profiles key industry leaders, industry innovators, and those new to the industry, reflects on key issues, and reports accurate information.

Expo Magazine
Expo Magazine provides strategies & solutions for tradeshow, convention, and corporate event management.

Meetings & Conventions
Meetings & Conventions magazine helps meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers. The magazine offers in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more.

Meeting News
Meeting News, the industry's only national publication that delivers the most timely and accurate news and analysis - keeping planners up-to-date on the ever-changing developments in the meetings industry. MeetingNews is published eighteen times a year, along with Regional Guides and the Meeting Planners Handbook.

Successful Meetings
Successful Meetings, the industry's leading magazine informs and entertains meetings professionals through information invaluable for the planning and execution of meetings, events, conventions and incentive travel programs. Successful Meetings is published every month along with the Annual SourceBook & Pinnacle Registry.

Trade Show Executive
Trade Show Executive magazine provides news, views and tools to the managers of shows large and small, in every industry from automotive to medical to woodworking, so that show executives can turn innovative ideas into a competitive edge.

Tradeshow Week
For over 35 years, Tradeshow Week has been the voice of the exhibition industry, serving thousands of global companies and business leaders around the world.